Alameda County
Biographies
JOHN D. KOTTINGER
JOHN D. KOTTINGER. The eldest son of his parents, John W.
and Maria (Bernal) Kottinger, whose names are well and widely known throughout
both Santa Clara and Alameda counties, John D. Kottinger was born in
San Jose August 1, 1851. A few months after this event his parents
removed to the present site of Pleasanton, Alameda county,
which town his father established, and there the first six years of his
childhood were spent. Removing to San Francisco at the end of that period he
spent his next five years in that location, receiving some scholastic training
there, which he afterward completed in the schools of Pleasanton and San Jose.
The greater part of the years of his manhood were, however, spent in Alameda county and upon his father’s ranch adjoining the town of
Pleasanton, where he engaged in ranching until 1890. In that year his wife
inheriting six acres of land on Race street, in the
suburbs of San Jose, he removed here and has since been engaged in an
intelligent cultivation of grapes.
Mr. Kottinger’s wife was
formerly Mary Souc, a native of San Francisco, and
the daughter of French parentage. They are the parents of six children, namely:
Joseph, who was a member of Company K, California Volunteers, and served
two years in the Philippine Islands, after his honorable discharge remaining in
the employ of the government as a revenue officer at Vigan,
Ilocos Sur province, Luzon; Alphonse, a law student
in Leland Stanford, Jr., University; Christine, Albert, Harry and Estella. One
child died in infancy.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard 03 July 2016.
Source: History of the State of California &
Biographical Record of Coast Counties, California by Prof. J. M. Guinn, A.
M., Page 1247. The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago, 1904.
© 2016 Marie Hassard.
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